Bombarded with prompts to enter iCloud password

[Ichinisan]

My iPhone 6 Plus glitched this morning when I sent an iMessage to my mother and it failed to send. I tapped the little exclamation point and tapped "try again" and it sent as a regular SMS text message (which I did NOT want to do because I still get charged per-message on this AT&T grandfathered plan). I double-checked Settings > Messages to make sure "send as SMS" was already turned-off (it was off). Spending many years with iPhone, I've had that problem many times.

Anyway, iMessage eventually started acting normal again. For the rest of the day, I've been continually prompted to enter my iCloud password, no matter what I'm doing on the phone. Every time I unlock, it's asking again. If I enter the password and use my phone like I'm doing now, it will pop-up every 5 minutes.

It never tells me the password is wrong. It seems to accept the password and go away for 5 minutes every time.

I've actually had this problem before, but I don't remember how I fixed it. I've rebooted multiple times and it has not helped. I haven't tried removing my iCloud account yet. I guess that's the next thing to try. If that doesn't work, I'll probably need to try a full restore...which I want to avoid doing.

 

[Ichinisan]

...and it finally just stopped happening after I wrote that post. I've been using Safari in my car for over 30 minutes. Various sites including Anandtech forums and Wikipedia. Had to enter the password multiple times and now it seems to have finally stopped asking.

 

[sportage]

I get this when I power down my iMac then power it back up.
I don't like iCloud. I don't want iCloud. So don't ask me to sign in.
I'm annoyed apple or any os thinks it knows what I want, and knows what I want better than I do.

Try me. You'll like me. Go ahead. No, go ahead. No, listen to me, go ahead, I insist. Your gonna do this. We can do this the easy way or the hard way, said the little os system to the operator.

 

[MotionMan]

I get this when I power down my iMac then power it back up.
I don't like iCloud. I don't want iCloud. So don't ask me to sign in.
I'm annoyed apple or any os thinks it knows what I want, and knows what I want better than I do.

Try me. You'll like me. Go ahead. No, go ahead. No, listen to me, go ahead, I insist. Your gonna do this. We can do this the easy way or the hard way, said the little os system to the operator.

You must have an iCloud account entered on your iMac. Maybe go in to the iCloud Settings and remove it and it will no longer ask you to log in? In the alternative, in the iCloud Settings and uncheck all the services?

Good luck.

MotionMan

 

[CZroe]

Uh oh.

 

[CZroe]

http://modmyi.com/content/19418-old...rs-wide-open-convincing-phishing-attacks.html

 

[MrColin]

not sure but you might be getting phished by the NSA in an effort to curb the spate of conservative terrorism we have seen lately. Just a guess though.